you both to tell me what role your religion has played in your own personal views on abortion. please talk about how you came to that decision, talk about how your religion played a part in that, and please, this is such an emotional issue for so many people in this country, please talk personally about this, if you could. congressman ryan. >> i don't see how a person can separate their public life from their private life or from their faith. our faith informs us in everything we do. my faith informs me how to take care of the vulnerable. how to make sure that people have a chance in life. now, you want to ask basically why i'm pro-life? it's not simply because of my catholic faith. that's a factor, of course. it's also because of reason and science. you know, i think about 10 1/2 years ago, my wife and i went to mercy hospital in janesville where i was born, for our 7-week ultrasound for our firstborn child and we saw that heart beat. our little baby was in the shape of a bean. and to this day, we have nicknamed our firstborn child, liza, "bean." now, i believe that life begins at co